Projit Mukharji

Projit Mukharji
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of London
MPhil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
BA, Presidency College, Calcutta
Contact Information
Office Address: 
326 Claudia Cohen Hall
Telephone: 
215 868 8697
Email Address: 
mukharji@sas.upenn.edu
Teaching Fields: 

Introduction to STM in Colonial India
Islamic Science
Asian Medicines & Modernity
Making India Modern
Globalization & Medicine in South Asia

Research Interests: 

Postcolonial Technoscience
Colonial Medicine
Indigenous Medical Traditions
Subaltern Science
Everyday Technologies
Substance Histories
Machinic Imaginaries

Selected Publications: 

Nationalizing the Body: The Market, Print and Healing in Colonial Bengal, 1860-1930. Anthem Press: London, 2009. 368pp.[PB 2011, Indian Edn. 2012]

Edited

Co-Editor, Medical Marginality in South Asia: Situating Subaltern Therapeutics (Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories). Routledge UK: Abingdon, 2012, 224 pp. [with David Hardiman]

Co-editor, Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010, 280pp. [with Waltraud Ernst and Anne Digby]

Co-editor, Football: From England to the World. Routledge, London, 2008, 156pp. [with Dolores Martinez]

Chapters in Books
“Pharmacology, ‘Indigenous Knowledge’, Nationalism—Few Words from the Epitaph of Subaltern Science”, in Mark Harrison and Biswamoy Pati eds., Society, Medicine and Politics: Colonial India, 1850-1940s. Routledge, London, 2009, pp. 195-212.

Journal Articles

“The ‘Cholera Cloud’ in the Nineteenth Century ‘British World’: History of an Object-without-an-essence”, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Fall, 2012 [Forthcoming]

“Symptoms of Dis-Ease: New Trends in Histories of ‘Indigenous’ South Asian Medicines”, History Compass, 9:12 (2011), pp. 887-99.

“Lokman, Chholeman and Manik Pir: Multiple Frames of Institutionalizing Islamic Medicine in Modern Bengal”, Social History of Medicine, 24:3 (2011), pp. 720-38.

“Babon Gaji’s Many Pasts: The Adventures of a Historian in a Counter-Archive”, Contemporary South Asia, 18, (2010), pp. 89-104. 

“Bangladeshe Ayurbed: Ekti Ashastriyo Itihaash” (Ayurveda in Bengal: A Non-Classical History) [in Bengali], Special issue on History of Medicine, Ababhaas (Bengali Journal), Calcutta, March (2009), pp. 112-20.

“Jessie’s Dream at Lucknow: Popular Memorializations of Dissent, Ambiguity and Class in the Heart of the Empire”, Studies in History, Vol. 24, No. 1, (2008), pp. 77-113.

“Going Beyond Elite Medical Traditions: The Case of Chandshi”, Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity, Vol. 2, No.2, (2006), pp. 277-91.

“Enframing Bangali Ayurbed: Going Beyond ‘Frontier’ Frames”, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh(Humanities), Vol. 49, Number 1, June (2004), pp. 13-40.





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